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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1906
Page
1
A fragment lists subscription offers: one month for 2.50, two months for 6.00, six months for 15.00, and one year for 25.00. The note urges readers to ask for the News arts section.
The article touts a new Atlanta store offering extensive stock at lower prices than rivals. It highlights a heated, well ventilated building with dining and ladies' seating, plus a head trimmer from Baltimore and a broad range of silk waists, in dresses, millinery, and ready to wear. It lists numerous garments and fabrics with prices and promotes a public invitation to inspect the new store.
A promotion states readers receive a one year subscription at no charge when they purchase ten items. Terms, eligibility, and redemption details are not fully shown in the fragment.
Twenty days after 1,200 miners were entombed in Apurrieres France a group of fourteen escaped to safety from pit No 2. They survived on bark hay and a decomposed horse as doctors warned relatives and crowds gathered outside the hospital.
Adjutant General William E. Mickle announced reports that the United Confederate Veterans reunion in New Orleans on April 25 to 27 was canceled for lack of funds are absolutely unfounded. The event proceeds as planned with attendance expected from veterans nationwide.
An eastbound Nickel Plate train No. 21 derailed near South Whitley Indiana as the smoker day coach and five sleeping cars left the track. Twenty three people were injured and one was fatally hurt. Only the baggage car and two dining car trucks remained on the rails.
Officers of the United Mine Workers authorized district and subdistrict officers to sign contracts with operators willing to pay the 1903 wage scale, a 5.5 percent rise. No national strike order was issued after an all day Indianapolis meeting. About 4,000 miners in the western region would remain at work as signing expanded to Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, and southern Illinois. President Mitchell declined to discuss prospects while remaining with the national executive board.
Southbound Chicago and Florida Limited derailed one mile north of Forton Georgia while rounding a curve. A porter from Atlanta, William Smith, was fatally injured. baggage master B C Philips also hurt. Passengers suffered bumps and bruises as cars were splintered by the broken trucks.
Two men, one Black and one white, drowned while duck shooting in Greasy Lake, 20 miles north of Vicksburg Mississippi on a Friday afternoon. The white man, identified as Alex Grant a wealthy cotton planter and merchant of Hardy in Issaquenna County, tried to save his companion and perished.
Nine month old child of Mr and Mrs Frank Boyet was shot dead in Chisolm Minnesota while in its mother's arms. The infant died when stray bullets from boys target practicing nearby shattered the window and struck the child in the head.
In Atlanta on Tuesday night five pistol shots rang from the home of Mrs. Joe Johns at 110 Hampton Street. One bullet gravely wounded Mrs. Carrie J. Bryant. A struggle followed between Walter Hightower and L B Wilmouth, ending in Wilmouth's death. Wilmouth’s jealousy of Mrs. Bryant sparked the tragedy.
The jury found Bart Bryant guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his father in Nashville Georgia. Judge Mitchell stated he would impose a heavier sentence if legally possible, delivering a three year term instead.
An official dispatch from German Southwest Africa reports a German detachment of one officer and sixteen men attacked by Hottentots on March 26. The clash killed Lieutenant Kalley and ten troopers, and set fire to a convoy of empty wagons.
At a Sunday gathering in Chicago about five thousand Zion City followers repudiated John Alexander Dowie. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, long in charge of church affairs, was elected to succeed him as head of the church founded by Dowie.
Edward H. Harriman is no longer chairman of the finance committee of the Illinois Central Railroad. The committee has been abolished, per a statement issued Monday afternoon at the company's New York offices.
The Bible Institute of the North Georgia Conference will convene in Gainesville on April 16 and will remain in session for several days. Prominent Methodist ministers from Georgia are expected to attend, promising a meeting that is both interesting and profitable.
Senator Tillman announces his candidacy for re election will center on the dispensary question. He publishes an appeal in South Carolina papers stating the dispensary policy remains vital and that his campaign will run on thatSingle issue.
A Saturday incident in Muscogee Territory notes the Dawes commission was robbed of records and Indian rolls, considered public property, with sells rumored nationwide from 50 to 450 dollars. An Indian agent recovered one copy. a pursuer paid 60 dollars to secure it.
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